Thursday, September 10, 2015

Consider our Universe with its four dimensions - at least four dimensions!

P.S. I just Copyrighted this. J

Consider our Universe complete with its 4 dimensions – at
least four!Scientists tell us that all the atoms, worlds, stars and
galaxies added together do not give enough mass to enable it to work the way
that it does.According to their calculations all the matter that they see
is only 4% of the mass needed. So, they ask where is the other 96%?Now these scientists are a lot smarter than I am, (My IQ
when I had it tested at about age 26 was 134)The scientists that are working on this problem are far and
away more intelligent than I am. Stephen Hawking for example has an IQ in
excess of 160. (As a matter of interest my mother had her IQ tested when I had
mine tested and it was 160 – she would have been about 47 years old then!)But let’s do some wandering, or should I say wondering?We live in a 3 dimensional world. Or 4 dimensions if you
count Time.Now consider people living in a 2 dimensional world. That
would be a flat world, on a flat surface, with two dimensions. How difficult do
you think it would be for them to imagine a world with three dimensions? I
would think pretty much impossible, wouldn’t you? I don’t know how if you lived
in a 2 dimensional world – width and length only – you could conceive of three
dimensions. That would of course be height. How could they imagine it? What
reference point would they have? Undoubtedly there would be some inhabitants of this world
that were more intelligent than the others. Some would be very intelligent.Say a 3 dimensional person passed through their world. As
that person travelled down through their 2 dimensional space they would appear
to the 2D people as a shadow on their world. First would appear the feet, then
as the feet disappeared below their ‘horizon’, or through their flat world, the
shadow of the legs would appear as two round objects. As the body continued
down those two shadows would vary in shape and size until the body reached the
hips, then the waist, the chest, the neck and finally the head.Now would it be possible for one of the really intelligent 2D worlders to
recreate or imagine the 3 dimensional shape of the thing that passed through
their world? Possibly.But that 3rd
dimension would be how much more complicated to them than their two dimensions?A hundred times a thousand times, a million
times, a billion times? Who knows? Certainly it would be almost inconceivably
difficult.An ‘easier’ example might be if a ball passed through their
flat world. First they would see a spot, the spot would be perfectly round and
would increase steadily in size until it reached a maximum diameter and began
to get smaller, eventually ending in a dot before it disappeared. Could they
then recreate or imagine the shape of that object in a 3 dimensional world?
They would also need the 4th dimension – time – to envision
accurately the shape. If they got the speed wrong it could be stretched out
into an absurdly long ellipse or it could look like an M&M – yum, yum, that
would not be too bad if they could get the taste right. That is the equivalent of the difficulty that we have in our
3 dimensional world, imagining the fourth dimensional. In fact I think that
imagining a 4th dimension would be millions or even billions of
times more difficult than imagining a 3rd dimension!.We have no idea what time is. We can’t see it as we can see
our 3 dimensions. We can’t move our heads or arms or legs in it as we can our
three dimensions! It “Moves”, but only in one direction – ‘forwards’?Well, we call it forwards, perhaps it is sideways
or up or down, or perhaps all 3 or even 4, or more ways at the same ‘time’?Why does it only go one way? Why not backwards as well? Why
only at one speed? Or does it only go at one speed? Perhaps it goes at
different speeds at different ‘times’ or it could be different for different
people?Certainly it is, or appears to
be going at a different speed for me than it did when I was a child, when it
wentV e r yS l o w l y!Now it is going so fast that I don’t even
know sometimes if it is winter or summer, or even which year!What is time? If our 2D people would have difficulty
imagining a 3D world – and I don’t know how they could, trapped as they are in
2 dimensions, what chance do we have of imagining a 4 dimensional world? Surely it would be at least as hard, or maybe
a million times harder? You tell me.Back to today’s problem, the Universe only contains 4% of
the matter needed to ‘work’.I have tried, using my very limited intelligence, to figure
out what has happened to the missing 96% of the matter in our Universe. My
first thought is to blame the Black Holes. Well surely as they are beyond
imagining in their own right, they could be the culprits! For Billions of years
now – 13.8 billion if our scientists have got any kind of a basic handle on
time – those darn Black Holes have been sucking our Universe in and sending it,
where?Where indeed? Perhaps the missing 96% is in the Black Holes.
But what the heck does that mean? When our daughter Sarah was a teenager, her
room was a sort of ‘Black Hole’, things went in and never came out! Our freezer
is a sort of modern “Black Hole’, things go in and never come out! But our Universe’s Black Holes are different to our private
home-made Black Holes. Stuff is definitely going IN the black holes – I know I
saw it happening in the Disney movie , “The Black Hole”. (Actually I am lying,
I didn’t see the movie. I just said I did for the effect.) But then again, if I
do see it one day when did I see it? If ‘time’ is as different as it must be,
perhaps I saw it even before it was made? Had you thought of that? Or perhaps I
saw it AND everything that I have done over the last 74 years all together, at
the same ‘time”! Perhaps everything that has happened, and is happening and
will happen is happening all at once! So there is no time? Sort of like the 2D
world that is just” there”, perhaps ‘time is just “there”Too far out? Perhaps. Or perhaps not. Who knows, I don’t and
I bet you don’t either.Back to the Black Holes.Are they really Black? Could they be Dark Purple, or even ALL colors
together. Or how about NO color? Enough of that. So the stuff goes in. I have
to say, in spite of the lessons learned from Sarah’s Black Hole, I for one do
not believe that it goes in never to be seen again. Call me a pessimist if you
will, and there are those among us who do just that, but I think that stuff
does something.Here is one thought, it goes in and comes out somewhere else
– in the Fifth Dimension!! Has that ever occurred to you? It has? Oh s**t and I
thought I was the first to think of that!Of course, the Fifth Dimension. If there is a one, two,
three, and four dimensions, why not a fifth? Or for that matter a 6th,
7th, 50th? Who knows, well it was just a thought!So it goes into a fifth dimension. Now that we have
established that, where do we go from here? Well first off if 96% of our
Universe is already in there, presumably the other 4% will be following soon –
well soon in Universal Time. Certainly after the Big Banks, and Wall Street
have sucked in all of the world’s money. Hey, a similarity, do the Banks and
Wall Street already have 96% of the money? They definitely have MORE than 96%
of my money! Enough already, don’t get me started on that. I am going to
save that for another piece, which would be much more difficult to understand
than a fifth dimension. I’m pretty sure there is no one alive today or in the
past or the future who can explain why we let Banks and Wall Street rob us all
with impunity.Whew, back to the ‘easy’ question of a Fifth Dimension. So it goes into The Black Holes – I imagine
that there are Billions if not Trillions of Black Holes busily sucking away OUR
universe – and comes out in the Fifth Dimension. That explains right there
where the missing 96% is. Do we need to go further? No. But I will. You were
afraid of that weren’t you? Come on admit it.Immediately I have to ask myself what happens when the 5th
dimension has ALL of our Universe, what then?Nothing in this amazing Universe is ever stable. Is that when we have
another BIG BANG and start all over again? No, too boring. I don’t think the
same thing happens again and again. Something different happens. Something that
we cannot imagine of course. We already have our 5th dimension which
is a billion times more complicated than the 4th dimension, which in
turn was a million times more complicated than the 3rd dimension .
By the way, I did just pick these numbers out of thin air, they have not been
established by ‘real’ scientists, just by little old me. I put that in for the
few reading here who do not understand my theories. Ready for another theory? I thought you might be. Stuff goes
into the Black Holes, the forces in there are unimaginable, yeah, yeah, we already
know that, we saw Disney’s movie too. No really, so unimaginable that it
actually compresses the atoms down to almost nothing.And you thought that I was going to say it
tears them apart didn’t you. Come on admit it you did.Didn’t you? Well it doesn’t. Well OK, it
might. I’ll give you that. But what if it doesn’t, instead it compresses them. Take a Hydrogen Atom, probably the most common thing in the
Universe. In order for our limited brains to understand the scale of an atom - If
the Nucleus of a Hydrogen Atom were the size of a golf ball its single electron
would be a mile away from the nucleus! And more than 99.9% of the mass of the
atom is contained in the nucleus. So you can see that most of an atom is space.
Another analogy is to compare a penny to the size of the moon. An atom compared
to a penny is about the same size as a penny compared to the moon. But don’t
forget that virtually ALL of the space in the atom is space. Some atoms could be compared to a ping pong
ball as the nucleus and the electrons circulating at the surface of the Earth
or even further out. Or compare a gold atom to the Sun. if both were one foot
in diameter, Pluto would be 1.6 miles from the Sun. The outermost electron of
the gold atom would be 3.3 miles out from the gold nucleus, twice as far as
Pluto is from the Sun! So you can see that the space in an atom is virtually
ALL of an atom. How do you compare the size of something a foot in diameter to
something several miles in diameter that is all empty space? I’m not sure that
I could do the calculation. My Dad could. He would immediately say the volume
of a sphere is 4/3 pi R cubed. So the volume of 1 foot diameter ball is 4/3XpiXR
cubed. = just over .5 of a cubic foot, I think. The volume of a ball 3 miles in
diameter is equal to about 4 Trillion cubic feet. (If my calculation was
right.) A trillion is a big number. If you stacked dollar bills 6 feet high
they would cover 100 football fields. Wow 100 football fields covered 6 feet
deep in 1 dollar bills! Or, just one football field 6 feet deep in $100 bills!
Or 5 times the number of stars in the Milky Way – our Galaxy - which has 200 Billion
stars. BUT, that is only ONE Trillion. The answer was 4 Trillion! So 400
football fields full 6 feet deep, or 20 times the number of stars in our
Galaxy! See why I say that the area filled by the nucleus of an atom is so
insignificant compared to the overall size of an atom? ½ a cubic foot compared
to 4 Trillion cubic feet. (The electrons are so small that they effectively
don’t add any size or mass to the nucleus.)Where the heck was I going with this? See I have so much fun
with numbers. J
Oh yes, our Black Hole, well one of the Billions of Black Holes in our
Universe, or Trillions of Black Holes? Or Trillions of Universes? Let’s not go
THERE! Our atom goes into the Black Hole and gets compressed down to its
component parts. Trillions of atoms are compressed down to the size of one
atom. Now that would be Heavy! Could that be the missing 96%? All those atoms
compressed down into all those Billions, (Trillions?) of Black Holes. All the
200 Billion stars from our Galaxy compressed down to the size of one star 1/20
the size of a star? Or if you prefer all the stars from 20 Galaxies compressed
down to the size of one star? (Aren’t numbers fun?)See, there is plenty of room for our imagination to roam.
Why not lets yours wander? Come on have fun, ramble, stray, see what you can
come up with. Who is there to say you are wrong? Stephen Hawking? He would not
bother to answer our meanderings, he is too busy thinking his own thoughts.
Maybe he is working on the Sixth Dimension?